Ideas, perspectives, and milestones from Etamor — on the future of Indian cities, the practice of urban planning, and the journey of building a consultancy from the ground up.
Every decade, Indian planners debate whether to tear down ageing urban districts and start afresh. The answer, consistently, is that demolition creates displacement, destroys community fabric, and costs far more than transformation. Etamor's approach begins with a different premise: that these districts are assets waiting to be upgraded.
Read the storyMonsoon flooding in Krishna Nagar and surrounding neighbourhoods reveals a systemic failure of piecemeal infrastructure upgrades. A district master plan would look very different.
Real-time city models can transform how planners understand traffic, flooding, and energy use. But building them on legacy data infrastructure requires a new approach.
A founding consultancy is not a startup in the conventional sense. Here's how we're thinking about building expertise-first, culture-first, and mission-first from day one.
Lucknow's Chowk, Hyderabad's Charminar surroundings, Delhi's Shahjahanabad — these areas are treated as frozen in time or cleared for development. Neither is right.
Long-range transport modelling sounds abstract. In practice, it determines whether a neighbourhood gets a metro station, a grade separator, or is cut off by a flyover.
Beautiful public spaces are not luxury add-ons — they drive tourism, increase property values, reduce crime, and raise civic participation. The numbers make the case.
Occasional essays, project updates, and perspectives on Indian urbanism. No noise.